Theresa Godin

Research interests

Development of fish stocks for recreational fisheriesRecreational fisheries managementDevelopment of fish culture technology for conservation

Research Bio

My focus is on applied research projects aimed at resolving fisheries management problems related to angler harvest, conservation of wild fish, and poor in-lake fish survival. As such I develop and assess new brood stocks and strains of rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, and kokanee to optimizing fish growth and survival in provincial hatcheries, lakes and rivers.

More than half the fish stocked for recreational fishing in the province of BC, are sterile or all-female sterile fish: the advantages include longer lived fish in the fishery and decreased chance of introgression with wild fish in some systems. A large part of my research focuses on the development of protocols for the production of sterile and/or all-female sterile rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, eastern brook trout, and kokanee for adoption by the provincial hatchery system. Once developed, the special stocks are assessed in-lake before being integrated into the fisheries program to meet the provincial Ministry’s fisheries management and conservation objectives.

I’m also interested in the development of provincial scope data collection and analysis standards, and developing innovative sampling equipment and software tools for fisheries managers.